Rollie Fingers rumors, news

Breaking news and rumors

Injuries and suspensions

Lifestyle

Trade rumors, contract, salary

Stats and scores

Family

Top stories

Fantasy rankings and news

Schedules and games

Rumors and scandals

• Weekly Pebble Report: Keep ‘Em Coming (April 14th-20th)

Colorado Rockies minor league report for Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025 The big league club might be scuffling, but I always say that it’s always a good time to be following minor league baseball. With every Colorado Rockies affiliate now in full swing for 2025, there is always fun baseball to watch—except on Tuesdays. Only one affiliate—the Hartford Yard Goats—has a winning record, but the games ha...2025
See more Colorado Rockies breaking news today
• The Colorado Rockies and Washington Nationals split Sunday night doubleheader

Photo by Justin Edmonds/Getty Images The Rockies split the doubleheader to snap their losing streak and debut their new uniforms. Game 1: Nationals 3, Rockies 2 The Colorado Rockies dropped the first game of the doubleheader to increase their losing streak to eight games and cement yet another series loss. Early errors...ew Trouble came early for the Rockies when, in the top of the second ...2025
Check it out Colorado Rockies news
• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta sends top prospect Ronald Acuna Jr. to the minors to begin the 2018 season

Photo by Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 2018 - The Braves send top prospect Ronald Acuña Jr. to the minors even though he is hitting .432 with four home runs during the spring. Acuña will make his major league debut on April 25 in Cincinnati. MLB History 1940 - The Triple A Kansas City Blues defeat the Washington Senators 22-5 while collecting 23 hits...2025
Continue with Ronald Acuna rumors
• C.A.: 1979 Hostess L-shaped panel - Steve Carlton, Reggie Smith, Enos Cabell

(Happy President's Day. No, I don't have this day off or the week off. I do have an extra day off thanks to the post office not delivering today. But that'll be Wednesday, not today. Wish me luck as I will have ventured out into 13-degree weather with the wind howling at 30 mph tonight. Time for Cardboard Appreciation! This is the 348th in a series): I received this 1979 Hostess panel f...2025
See also Steve Carlton news and rumors
• Ranking the best trades in Milwaukee Brewers history

Orlando Ramirez-Imagn Images Something to ponder while we wait for spring As we wait to see whether the Brewers make any moves to improve their infield before spring training, I thought it would be an interesting time to go back through team history and look at some of the team’s best trades. I’ve ranked the top five trades with the following considerations in mind: What did they get? What...2025
Read about Milwaukee Brewers news
• Baseball history unpacked, January 10

Happy birthday, Rafael Dolis | Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Rafael Dolis*, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various na...2025
See more articles Mitchell Layton breaking news

• Weekly Pebble Report: Keep ‘Em Coming (April 14th-20th)
2025

See also Colorado Rockies injury
• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta sends top prospect Ronald Acuna Jr. to the minors to begin the 2018 season
2025

Visit the page Ronald Acuna injury report
• Ranking the best trades in Milwaukee Brewers history
2025

Visit the page Milwaukee Brewers injuries
• Baseball history unpacked, January 10
2025

Continue with Mitchell Layton injury update
• Today in White Sox History: January 8

On this day 17 years ago, all-time great reliever Rich Gossage was elected to the Hall of Fame. | Charles Cherney/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images The Hall of Fame gets Goosed 2001 Just 145 hits shy of 3,000, Harold Baines re-signed with the White Sox, marking the third time in his career he’s chosen to rejoin the team via free agency. The soon-to-be 42-year-old only g...2025
Check it out White Sox injury
• Baseball history unpacked, November 6

Craig Counsell is named Cubs manager on this date a year ago | Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Craig Counsell is named Cubs manager and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s...2024
Continue with Craig Counsell injury update
• Baseball history unpacked, November 4

Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The Chicago River runs Cubbie Blue, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various ...2024
Click for news about Red Stockings injury report
• Baseball history unpacked, November 1

Happy birthday, Jeremiah Estrada | Photo by John Cordes/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. 2016 Game 6 and other stories. Happy birthday, Jeremiah Estrada and others. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorfu...2024
Check it out Jeremiah Estrada injuries
• Baseball history unpacked, October 16

Happy birthday, Rodney Scott! | Photo by Ron Vesely/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday, Rodney Scott! And other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various na...2024
Read about Red Sox availability report
• The 1975 Topps countdown, worst to best (No. 40-21)

I would be remiss if I didn't mention on a post devoted completely to cards issued in 1975 that we recently lost two key members of the 1975 baseball postseason.Both Pete Rose and Luis Tiant were critical parts of the two teams that reached the 1975 World Series. Both wily veterans by the '75 series, their abilities were trumpeted all over the playoff telecasts that year.At least that's what...2024
See also Pete Rose availability report

• A visitor’s guide to 2024 Arizona spring training

Photo by Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images Everything you need to know if you’re headed to the Valley of the Sun for baseball (and other entertainment!) this spring. SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — 2024 will be my 35th spring training and as a veteran of going to spring games as well as other places in the Phoenix area, I thought I’d post some helpful hints for those of you venturing to the Valley of the S...2024
Click for news about Ross Kinnaird
• Baseball history unpacked, August 25

Happy birthday, Adam Warren | Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources, a little bit cheesy but nicely displayed. No-hitters, Fergie under arrest, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s ...2023
Click for news about Adam Warren

2025
"Reliever Rollie Fingers would join Seaver at the Hall of Fame induction that year."

2024
"There was Rollie Fingers, the mustachioed bullpen ace who flourished while becoming one of MLB’s first great closers."

2023
"1982 - Rollie Fingers becomes the first player in major league history to record 300 career saves in a 3-2 win over the Mariners."

2022
") September 28, 1975, Oakland Athletics: Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Lindblad and Rollie Fingers."

2018
"Hall of Fame pitcher Rollie Fingers is rejoining the A's as a special assistant to the president, the club announced Wednesday."

2017
"Ryan Braun, who's been the subject of trade rumors, is scheduled to attend the Brewers' annual fan fest later this month, along with other starting position players and Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Rollie Fingers."

2016
"Rollie Fingers (second year of eligibility), Goose Gossage (ninth year) and Bruce Sutter (13th year) all had to wait."

2015
"Rollie Fingers grades the best MLB facial hair of 2015"

2014
"Kroc nearly obliged, exploding that if Rollie Fingers had been turned down his request for a McDonald's franchise, you could sure as #@!"

• Weekly Pebble Report: Keep ‘Em Coming (April 14th-20th)
2025

See also Colorado Rockies contract
• The Colorado Rockies and Washington Nationals split Sunday night doubleheader
2025

Click for news about Colorado Rockies salary
• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta sends top prospect Ronald Acuna Jr. to the minors to begin the 2018 season
2025

See more Ronald Acuna contract rumors
• Ranking the best trades in Milwaukee Brewers history
2025

Visit the page Milwaukee Brewers trade rumors
• Baseball history unpacked, January 10
2025

Continue with Mitchell Layton salary rumors
• Today in White Sox History: January 8
2025

See also White Sox
• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta re-signs Eric Hinske to a one-year deal

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 2010 - The Braves re-sign Eric Hinske to a one-year deal. Hinske hit .256/.338/.456 with 11 home runs in 131 games for Atlanta in 2010. He appeared in 117 games in 2011 while hitting .233/.311/.403 with 10 home runs in 2011. MLB History 1915 - The Yankees acquire Wally Pipp from the Tigers off of waivers. He would eventually anch...2025
Click for news about Eric Hinske trade rumors
• Baseball Backgrounds : 1981's Weird Year and 1982 Reggie's Reflection Redux

Last time, I looked deep into Reggie Jackson's glasses on 1982 Topps #300......searching for the man within. That other guy wore a light uniform and chatted at the batting cage, where Reggie himself sported a Yankees warmup pullover.Ferreting out that figure felt a lot like identifying background photos in 1956 Topps, where you use on-field context and historical box scores to work out who made a ...2024
Continue with Richie Ashburn contract rumors
• Brewers All-Time Team: Relief Pitcher

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel-USA TODAY NETWORK We fittingly “close out” our All-Time Team with a reliever This is it: the last spot on the Brewers All-Time Team, where we’ve taken the best single season at each position (excluding the designated hitter, and without repeating players). Here’s what we’ve got, a group that spans 50 years from the Brewers’ first season in Milwaukee to a play...2024
See more articles Relief Pitcher trade rumors
• The history of Royals firemen

Someone call 911 First, my apologies to our female readers. I’m not talking about traditional firemen. You know, like the hunky dudes of Fire Station #8 or any other station in the metro area. Those brave men (and many women) who don those bulky suits and race around the city to the closest fire or accident when they’re not making spicy calendars. No, the firemen I’m talking about are the pitcher...2024
Read about Hoyt Wilhelm contract

• The Colorado Rockies and Washington Nationals split Sunday night doubleheader
2025

See also Colorado Rockies stats
• Ranking the best trades in Milwaukee Brewers history
2025

Visit the page Milwaukee Brewers stats
• Baseball Backgrounds : 1981's Weird Year and 1982 Reggie's Reflection Redux
2024

Visit the page Richie Ashburn statistics
• Dave Parker, Dick Allen elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame by Classic Baseball Era Committee

Tom Lynn/Milwaukee Journal via Imagn Content Services, LLC Parker was an All-Star for the Brewers in his lone season in Milwaukee in 1990 The Milwaukee Brewers will have another former player in the Hall of Fame come next summer. Outfielder Dave Parker, who played one season in Milwaukee back in 1990, was one of two players elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on this year’s Class...2024
Read about Dave Parker statistics
• Brewers All-Time Team: Right Field

Jon Durr-Imagn Images We wrap position players with our only active player (so far?!) The Brewers All-Time Team wraps up position players today with right field. A reminder of the rules: We’re looking for the best individual season at each position, not the best career Players can only be used once A player must have played more games at the given position in the given season than any oth...2024
Read about Christian Yelich stats
• Baseball history unpacked, November 1
2024

Click for news about Jeremiah Estrada statistics
• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta scores 29 runs in win over Marlins

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1914: - Boston Braves’ hurler George Davis no-hits the Phillies, 7-0. 1935: With the Cardinals’ Phil Collins losing to Curt Davis and the Phils, 4-3, the Cubs extend their winning streak to six straight games. Chicago tops the Braves, 5-1 and 2-1, behind the pitching of Larry French and Tex Carleton, cutting the Cardinal lead t...2024
See more Carmen Mandato
• This Day in Braves History: Dale Murphy hits his 300th career home run

Braves Franchise History 1961 - In their first appearance in Boston since moving to Milwaukee, the Braves defeat the Red Sox 4-1 in an exhibition game. 1987 - Dale Murphy hits his 300th career home run to help the Braves beat the Pirates 5-4. MLB History 1931 - Babe Ruth becomes the first major league players to hit 600 career home runs as the Yankees beat the Browns 11-7. 1949 - Thrown bottles...2024
Visit the page Dale Murphy scores
• Baseball history unpacked, August 9

Photo by Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. The first official night game at Wrigley Field, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to fo...2024
See more Wrigley Field
• On Ryan Braun, Brewers Walk of Famer

Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports The Brewer superstar is a legend, but has a complicated legacy Ryan Braun was inducted into the Walk of Fame over the weekend, one of the highest honors the Milwaukee Brewers can bestow upon a former player. Braun is the 23rd member of the Walk of Fame, a group that includes not just Brewer legends but also those from the Milwaukee Braves (Eddie Mathews, J...2024
See more Charles LeClaire scores

• The 1975 Topps countdown, worst to best (No. 40-21)
2024

Visit the page Pete Rose
• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta scores 29 runs in win over Marlins
2024

Check it out Carmen Mandato
• Baseball history unpacked, August 9
2024

See more articles Wrigley Field
• On Ryan Braun, Brewers Walk of Famer
2024

Read about Charles LeClaire
• Back to it! Biscuits Win First Half Division Title, This Weeks Montgomery History with Gray Sox!

Back to it! I been slackin. I had to give myself a break after organizing my first baseball research conference and then doing double duty with history and current season upkeep! It's nice to get back to the stuff I had put off, putting away winter clothes and packing up the gear that was out for display at the big conference.It also gave me the time to ponder some things...Is Oakland s...2024
Check it out Atlanta Braves
• Remembering Orlando Cepeda

Photo by Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images Last stop with the Royals This story originally ran July 25, 2022, and has been edited for content. After the advent of the designated hitter rule in 1973, American League clubs had to develop a plan as to who their DH would be. Some teams had an in-house option, such as Gates Brown with the Tigers or Tony Oliva with the Twins. Other teams went...2024
Visit the page Orlando Cepeda
• Royals Rumblings - News for June 20, 2024

That was a fun moment between Butler and Gordon | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Thursdays are the new Friday! Ed note: Yes, I know, it’s not Friday. But when we get down to OT, this will make sense. Greg was gracious enough to switch when I realized the game today fit with the topic. For those of you who skip Friday Rumblings... shame on you. Or not. But this is the wild and bori...2024
Click for news about Jamie Squire
• Baseball at Rickwood

Photo by Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images The original Field of Dreams. For the last three summers, Major League Baseball has hosted a major or minor league game at the Field of Dreams site in Dyersville, Iowa. The games have been a smashing success. The state of Iowa is committing money towards building a permanent stadium at the site, which could host a variety of games and oth...2024
See more Dyersville Iowa
• Friday Rockpile: In times like these, Rockies fans must consider the A’s fan

Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, May 24, 2024 Usually, if the Rockies went 4-5 on a road trip, it wouldn’t be so bad. After all, the Rockies have an all-time franchise winning percentage of .389 on the road (957-1501) and 4-5 equates to .444. If the Rockies did that consistently, they would be a much-improved squad....2024
See also Colorado Rockies
• The most colorful hobby box I've ever opened, part 1

All right, welcome to my 2024 Heritage box break. This is the first hobby box I have purchased since 2011 when I bought a box of Allen & Ginter for the third year in a row. After that I went into box-breaking rehab and have done quite well, except for falling off the wagon ... right now.I don't buy hobby boxes these days for a lot of reasons, but one of the big ones occurring to me now is I ...2024
Click for news about Yordan Alvarez

• Rollie Fingers grades the best MLB facial hair of 2015
2015
• This Day in Braves History: Dale Murphy hits 300th career home run

2023

See also Dale Murphy
• Scott Miller's Starting 9: PED Era Makes for Clear Choices in Hall of Fame Vote
2016

Continue with Scott Miller
• Former Cubs reliever Willie Hernandez has passed away

Willie Hernandez pitching for the Cubs in 1977 | Photo by Heinz Kluetmeier /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images He went on to better years in Detroit after the Cubs traded him. Willie Hernandez, a lefthander who pitched for the Cubs from 1977-83, has passed away, aged 69. This Spanish-language article has details (and if you put it into Google Chrome, you should be able to read a translati...2023
Check it out Puerto Rico
• This Day in Braves History: Bruce Sutter picks up 300th career save

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1914: - Boston Braves’ hurler George Davis no-hits the Phillies, 7-0. 1935: With the Cardinals’ Phil Collins losing to Curt Davis and the Phils, 4-3, the Cubs extend their winning streak to six straight games. Chicago tops the Braves, 5-1 and 2-1, behind the pitching of Larry French and Tex Carleton, cutting the Cardinal lead ...2023
See more articles Bruce Sutter
• The Oakland Athletics’ rich history is being set on fire by John Fisher

Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images The A’s will officially be playing Sacramento in 2025 before a planned move to Vegas. A once-dynastic baseball town has been abandoned. It’s official. At the end of the 2024 campaign, the Oakland Athletics will be dead. They will play at least their next three seasons at Sutter Health Park, home of the minor-league Sacramento River Cats, and aim to move...2024
See more articles Oakland Athletics
• Combined no-hitters in major league history

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images Here’s some more interesting baseball history. The Cubs had Shōta Imanaga, Nate Pearson and Porter Hodge combine for a no-hitter over the Pirates Wednesday evening at Wrigley Field. That's still a rare enough feat that I thought you'd like to see a list of the 20 other combined no-hitters in major-league history. June 23, 1917, first game. B...2024
Click for news about Matt Dirksen
• Four Astros combined on a no-hitter in Game 4 of the World Series, the 19th combined no-no in MLB history
Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images Houston’s gem was just the second ever in the Fall Classic and only the third in the postseason. Cristian Javier, Bryan Abreu, Rafael Montero and Ryan Pressley of the Astros combined to no-hit the Phillies in Game 4 of the World Series Wednesday in Philadelphia. The four Houston pitchers issued three walks and struck out 14. Here are the three ninth-inn...2022
See more World Series

1. White Sox

2. World Series

3. Red Sox

. . .

1432. Rollie Fingers

• Ain’t Nothin’ Gonna Break My Strider
Not since Rollie Fingers's mustache left his face in the middle of the night in July, 1979, and impregnated my mother, during one of her weaker moments, after being told her ravioli wasn't as good as her mother's, has a mustache had such a remarkable evening. Yes, I'm saying that to you today. The mustache that impregnated my mother that usually laid on the upper lip of Rollie Fingers was not as g...2022
Read about Spencer Strider
• Miami Gets in Their PJs And Puts Cards To Sleep
Yesterday, Jazz Chisholm Jr. (1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 3rd homer) was moved back to the leadoff spot. Whatever was worked out between Jazz and Don Mattingly was worked out behind closed doors. There's no way of knowing. What happened, if I had to guess, was Jazz said to Don, "I'm sorry for drawing a mustache on all the photos of you around the clubhouse. The Rollie Fingers-curl was especially incon...2022
See also Don Mattingly

• Weekly Pebble Report: Keep ‘Em Coming (April 14th-20th)
2025

Click for news about Colorado Rockies
• The Colorado Rockies and Washington Nationals split Sunday night doubleheader
2025

Visit the page Colorado Rockies
• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta sends top prospect Ronald Acuna Jr. to the minors to begin the 2018 season
2025

Read about Ronald Acuna
• Ranking the best trades in Milwaukee Brewers history
2025

Click for news about Milwaukee Brewers
• Today in White Sox History: January 8
2025

Visit the page White Sox
• Baseball Backgrounds : 1981's Weird Year and 1982 Reggie's Reflection Redux
2024

See more articles Richie Ashburn
• Brewers All-Time Team: Relief Pitcher
2024

Check it out Relief Pitcher
• The history of Royals firemen
2024

Read about Hoyt Wilhelm
• Brewers All-Time Team: Right Field
2024

See more articles Christian Yelich
• William Contreras fifth on 2024 MVP Ballot, Adames and Chourio earn recognition

Brewers catcher William Contreras | Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Shohei Ohtani wins the NL award with Aaron Judge taking AL honor The Milwaukee Brewers’ William Contreras placed fifth in the 2024 NL MVP race. He received three votes for a finish as high as third place, with the most popular vote in his favor for fifth place at seven votes. Ultimately, first place honors went to...2024
Check it out William Contreras

• Ranking the best trades in Milwaukee Brewers history
2025

Check it out Milwaukee Brewers scandal
• Baseball Backgrounds : 1981's Weird Year and 1982 Reggie's Reflection Redux
2024

Continue with Richie Ashburn scandal
• On Ryan Braun, Brewers Walk of Famer
2024

Continue with Charles LeClaire scandal
• Royals Rumblings - News for June 20, 2024
2024

See more Jamie Squire scandal
• Friday Rockpile: In times like these, Rockies fans must consider the A’s fan
2024

See more Colorado Rockies rumors
• A visitor’s guide to 2024 Arizona spring training
2024

See more articles Ross Kinnaird
• Baseball history unpacked, January 8

Happy birthday, James Russell! A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Happy birthday to James Russell and others, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of the lore and various narratives to follow as the...2024
Read about New York Yankees gossip
• Scott Miller's Starting 9: PED Era Makes for Clear Choices in Hall of Fame Vote
2016

See more articles Scott Miller buzz

MLB - baseball breaking news, rumors, trades and scores...